A Teacher’s Thoughts

I had a brief conversation with the music teacher at our school yesterday. Her classroom is well equipped with computers and she has students work on projects using midi software. I suggested the idea of podcasting student projects and performances. The response was so positive. If you could see our school at this time you [...]

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad in coverage, [...]

It has taken a while but I am starting to cross things off my to-do list. Going back and reading things I didn’t have time for earlier is an ever present item on this list. I don’t remember how I found my way to this article or how it found its way to me, but [...]

Some time back, Ray Gilmore, a gradate of our school had written a letter to the local paper. He was serving in the Army in Afghanistan in a remote region near the Iranian border. His mission was with the local people. He spent his days planning and guiding the building/rebuilding of various infrastructure such as [...]

When my students first began to use Bubbl.us they used it mainly for vocabulary or to organize their own thoughts around an idea. I took this approach to focus on the tool and get the novelty out of the way so we could return to thinking. After a few days, a student commented that it [...]